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...ongoing Darfur genocide is a terrible humanitarian crisis. The “Janjawid,” armed men on horses, sponsored by the Sudanese government, have targeted mainly members of the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa ethnic groups and other agro-pastoralist groups living in Darfur. The crimes done to humanity are enormous—roughly 1.2 million people have been displaced, women’s rights are being severely violated, and estimates for the death toll are over...
Other participants added that the discussion of other issues that receive little attention, such as agro-terrorism, were enlightening...
There are some statistical problems with the study that keep it from being considered definitive. But it raised a lot of concern. Folks who like to blame the agro-food industry quickly argued that pesticides in food might have a hormone-like effect on children's bodies. Many pediatric endocrinologists, however, believe the suspected change has more to do with the extraordinary increase in childhood obesity over the past two decades. Fat cells produce leptin, a protein known to help trigger puberty. With more fat cells churning out leptin, earlier puberty would seem highly likely...
...official. In Florida, where the most ardent anti-Castro lobby resides, a recent Miami Herald survey showed more people against than for the embargo. Meanwhile, cultural contacts between the U.S. and Cuba are at an all-time high, sponsored in large part by U.S. corporations like AT&T and agro-titan Archer Daniels Midland...
...students at a college in the Midwest that UPN is considering; Thirty, a half-hour comedy-drama hybrid for ABC that shakes up the now familiar Friends formula; Eli's Theory, a half-hour drama for WB about a single father raising his six-year-old genius son; and Agro & York, for Fox, a puppet show set in space. On the drama front, Chicago Hope's Peter Berg, who made his film directorial debut with last winter's dark comedy Very Bad Things, is writing and directing Bellevue, a one-hour drama set in a large psychiatric hospital. Says Krantz...